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Concrete Mathematics

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

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The Elements of Computing Systems

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3 here · 58 all-time · #65 overall

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The Annotated Turing

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Domain Driven Design

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2 here · 21 all-time · #289 overall

Elements

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2 here · 20 all-time · #327 overall

Types and Programming Languages

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Feynman Lectures on Computation

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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Clean Code

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The Algorithm Design Manual

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A Philosophy of Software Design

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Linear Algebra Done Right

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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

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The Art of Unix Programming

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Algorithm Design

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Purely Functional Data Structures

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1 here · 10 all-time · #625 overall

The Origin of Species

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The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

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The Rust Programming Language

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The New Turing Omnibus

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Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

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Computer Lib/Dream Machines

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Joel on Software

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Modern Compiler Implementation in ML

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Elements of Information Theory

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Java Concurrency in Practice

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A Mathematical Theory of Communication

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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

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1 here · 3 all-time · #1954 overall

Understanding Computation

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A Logical Approach to Discrete Math

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